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Meta E6 offer.
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Job market is brutal for SWEs 🥲
M 29, white if that matters. Should I take the Bytedance 2-2 offer? How is the culture like? I consider myself fairly ambitious but is 996 culture real?
Yes take it. Nothing is perfect in this economy
YOE? What are your expectations or what do you hope to get out of this? Do you want to be promoted to 3-1 or higher and willing to sacrifice anything to get there?
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996 is in the past decade. The new norm is called 007, people work from 0am to 0am, 7 days a week
Can someone working at Bytedance support or refute this claim?
Refute for sure
If you want a mental toll on you sure
Can you please tell me what your usual week looks like?
2-2 is expected to work with senior leaders in China and prepare to spend extra time in understanding Chinese to English translation
Is this for real
Yes, I’m non Chinese and it’s much harder for us. Almost you read about our reputation is real so take that into account when making your decision
TC Offered ?
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What is 2-2 offer? OP, learn from here to perform everywhere.
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I am a laid off L4 Google SWE. I am just nervous if I will be able to perform at Bytedance. I don’t want to get laid off
This changes my answer. You got a higher level (2-2 = L5). The comp here is good and if you’re laid off right now it’s a great offer WLB will suck. It’s hard here for non Chinese, but work is generally interesting and there’s opportunity to learn. Promotion to staff is very unlikely. Good luck with your decision
If you can live off savings, don't join. It's a badly run place with poor engineering standards. Example, for the product I'm working on, there is no production environment available unless I jump through major hoops. When I bring this up as a waste of time, I'm told "well it is what it is". I understand every company has issues, but this is something else. Also it doesn't help if you aren't Chinese, there are serious communication barriers.
There are serious discrimination problems against non-Chinese (even if you do work 996 and speak the language) so don’t expect any growth or rewards. However any job is better than unemployment, so I think you should take it and start looking for better right away.
Whats the TC they offer you? And what team is it? Generally WLB varies team to team
260, 50 sign on, 25% annual bonus, 400k equity
Nice. Take it this is a great offer. I am 2-2 in my org and its pretty manageable and relaxing as compared to other tech companies